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Fruits of Labour

Writer and broadcaster Melissa Viney reflects on how becoming a mother can affect creativity.

After giving birth recently for the first time, the writer and broadcaster Melissa Viney reflects on how motherhood can affect a woman's creative life.

Does it open up new ways of viewing the world or can it occasionally push them 'to the side of their own lives' as Philip Larkin suggested? Including readings from the work of Esther Morgan, Ellen Bell and Chana Bloch, music from Nina Simone and Clara Schumann and new interviews with the artists Charlotte Verity and Jo Dennis.

Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 3 Jun 2012 23:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Emily Hall

    Hello

    Performers: Oliver Coates (cello) Mara Carlyle (voice)

    • White Label.

  • Bob Dylan

    She Belongs to Me

    • Bringing It All Back ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ.
    • Columbia.
    • CK-9128.
    • 2.

  • Clara Schumann

    Trio in G Minor for Piano, Violin and Cello. Op. 17 III Andante

    Performer: Beaux Arts Trio

    • Philips Recordings 1967 - 1974.
    • Philips.
    • 000150602.
    • 11.

  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Get Well Rag

    Performer: Lisa Moore

    • Purple Black and Blues.
    • Tall Poppies.
    • 147.
    • 12.

  • Nina Simone

    Everything Must Change

    • Baltimore.
    • Sony Music Distribution.
    • 4769062.
    • 2.

  • Van Morrison

    Brand New Day

    • Moondance.
    • WB.
    • 46040.
    • 8.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 3 Jun 2012 06:05
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Sun 3 Jun 2012 23:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4